David Mazouz

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Biography

David (pronounced "Dah-veed") Mazouz, aged 13 as of February 2014, began his acting career in commercials. At eight years old, he landed his first film, "Coming and Going", directed by Edoardo Ponti. Shortly thereafter, he was cast in the cable movie "Amish Grace". He then landed a role as the co- star of the Fox television series, "Touch", as the character, "Jake", alongside Kiefer Sutherland who plays his father, "Martin". Jake never speaks. He is obsessed with numbers--writing long strings of them in his ever-present notebooks--and with discarded cell phones. Read more... connect every life on the planet. It is up to his father, Martin, to help connect with Jake and shape humanity's destiny.

Along with his thriving television career, David shows his versatility in the horror thriller "Sanitarium". He stars alongside Malcolm McDowell, Lou Diamond Phillips, Lacey Chabert, Chris Mulkey, and Robert Englund. . David has also recently been cast in "Conversations with Andy" as "Preston", a ten-year old boy who is forced to deal with his parents' divorce. The film is in PR-production. The cast includes Ty Simkins ("Insidious") and Willow Shields ("Hunger Games"). In Summer of 2013 David shot the film The Games Maker in a leading role for Disney with Joseph Fiennes, Ed Asner about a boy who becomes an inventor of games and loses his parents and embarks on a journey to uncover the mystery and rescue them. Shot in Argentina in 3D, the film is set to be released summer 2014.

In December, David was cast in a role for Blumhouse called Incarnate alongside Aaron Eckhart as a boy possessed by a demon. Shortly after, David booked the role of the young Bruce Wayne in the Warner Bros. production for Fox called Gotham for television in Fall of 2014. He is set to begin filming the movie, 6 Miranda Drive with Kevin Bacon, Radha Mitchell and Lucy Frye about a family battling their own personal demons as well as a supernatural one they bring back from a holiday.

David's other television credits include a kid in detention in "Mike and Molly"; James Spader's son on "The Office"; a troubled youth on "Private Practice"; and a dying boy on "Criminal Minds".

David was born in Los Angeles, California, to Rachel, a psychotherapist, and Michael Mazouz, a physician. He has an older sister. He is from a Sephardi Jewish family; his father is from Tunisia, and his mother was born in the U.S., to parents from Greece. David has studied musical and sketch improvisation at Second City, as well as The Improv, where he wrote his own material. While David has already accomplished so much and reached important milestones in his career, his dream is to work with his idols, including Steven Spielberg, Tina Fey, Kristin Wiig, JJ Abrams, Tim Burton, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Downey Jr., and David O. Russell. He enjoys spending time with his friends from school, his dogs, and his sister. He is fascinated by maps and geography, and loves movies, learning guitar, writing lyrics, singing, dancing, and acting. David regularly takes guitar lessons; in fact, he got a guitar from Touch costar Kiefer Sutherland as an 11th-birthday present.